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THE FESTIVAL – AUGUST 25-30

Whereas The Conference is two days of super-curated talks at Slagthuset, The Festival is what we’d call “an intense smorgasbord” of workshops, seminars, food, culture, music, master classes and festivities from which you can customize your own experience. All signed, sealed and delivered by speakers from The Conference and brilliant minds from our community.

Most festival events are for free and anyone is welcome to register. It doesn’t matter if you’re attending The Conference or not. The Festival is for everyone interested in the now and beyond.

REGISTRATION TO THE EVENTS OPENS AUGUST 6

All eventsCultureWorkshopsSeminars

Sunday August 25

9:30 am
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12:30 pm

The Brunch with IBM seminar

Join us for brunch in the park and listen to talks from thought leaders as we kick-off The Jam with IBM.

Join us for brunch in the park and listen to talks from thought leaders as we kick-off The Jam*. We’ll be sharing stories and setting direction for action around how people , industry and society are being impacted by the Field to Fork value chain, Circular City models, Digital Sales & Marketing shifts, Supply Chain challenges, Customer Care and building new business models enabled by data and AI.

*The Jam 2019 will assemble over 150 creatives, technologists and innovation thinkers from across the globe to Malmö, Sweden to explore and design for people, industry and societal challenges our businesses require to be sustainable. Multi-disciplinary IBM Garage teams will work with Nordic companies to tackle building platform value chains, designing for business and the people, as well as exploring how technology shifts and disruptive macro forces will enhance or impede our abilities to act.

DNA Analysis Workshopworkshop

During this DNA analysis workshop, the participants will get to see their DNA strands with their own eyes.

We will start off with some basic theory about cells and the underlying structure and functions of DNA. Then the participants will take cells from the inside of their mouths, open them up and make the DNA in the cell core clump up.

The workshop makes it easier for children and curious adults to understand the concept of DNA, while at the same time having fun together with other nice people.

This event is perfect for people from 8 years and up. Feel free to bring your kids and their friends!

What You'll Learn

How DNA works

Swabbing techniques

Double helix isolation

2:00 pm
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4:00 pm

Low-Tech Sun Boat Building Workshopworkshop

This is the perfect time to explore both technology and sustainable energy sources. By building a small boat and attaching solar panels to it, we can make it run on completely renewable energy sources.

During this workshop, the participants will learn how solar panels and electric motors work, as well as the basics of electricity.

This event is perfect for people from 8 years and up. Feel free to bring your kids and their friends!

Short film marathon + Q&A with the filmmakersculture

What does technology mean for human behavior? Does technology unleash our unlimited human resources, or does it shape our behavior and actions beyond our control? Is technology universal and democratic or does it create new forms of inequality?

ARF/FilmCentrum Syd present a selection of short films to reflect upon the complexity of technology, and its impact on human behavior and social interaction. The screening of the films will be followed by a discussion with some of the directors represented in the programme.

SELFIE – Pose, Click, Upload, and Repeat is a documentary about how selfies as a phenomena has become a form of feminist activism on social media. By taking pictures of themselves, under-represented groups create a broader representation of bodies than media offers.

AUTONOMOUS
Made by: Alexander Rynéus & Per Eriksson, 2014. 14 min. English subtitles.
A new, overwhelming era is approaching from the sidelines. The boundaries between what is real and unreal are becoming increasingly blurred through technological advances. How will we hold up in an era where humans are being replaced with robots, and the real world is
almost perfectly simulated in digital realities? Is there a limit for what can be replaced?
Autonomous is an intense, emotional look into a future that is already here.

The members of video activist group Equipe Media, from Western Sahara, fight to keep their cameras. This is a story about breaking an absolute censorship with unique footage from an area where the Moroccan authorities have managed to implement a near total media blockade.

A FRAGMENT OF A LIFE IN FOUR SCENES
Made by: David Arnonowitch, 2016. 14 min. English subtitles.

Liban lives with his younger siblings and mother in Stockholm. Unexpectedly his older cousin whom he never met before appears. Liban’s father, who lives in USA, says that he has to help his cousin, Dahir, and see him as his brother. Liban starts to ask him questions while at the same time filming him.

PRERI FOON
Jen Tamayo Jörfjord, 2018. 4 min 30 sec. No dialogue.

Distant noise during a calm night. Fragile windows witness downfall in an artificial light of dawn. A portrait of objectification.

FilmCentrum Syd
is a meeting place for filmmakers in the region of Skåne that offers production support for short and documentary films and a grant in co-operation with Film i Skåne.
FilmCentrum Syd also function as a platform for education related to filmmaking, as well as organizing seminars and network meetings.

ARF - film and culture for human rights is part of FilmCentrum Syd’s organization and promotes respect in relationships between
people of various backgrounds, cultures and experiences. Their objective is to counteract
racism, xenophobia, discrimination and crimes against Human Rights.

Film has a unique abiltity to illustrate and give life to important questions. By combining film with a lecture we adress emotion as well as intellect, which may lead to increased
understanding and tolerance.

6:00 pm
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8:00 pm

The Talk Show: "Demystifying the Media Image of the Middle East"seminar

Through this talk show we will highlight the complexity and uniqueness of the Malmö-Middle East interlink.

The media in the 21st century has been presenting a Middle East as in continuous conflict, misery and poverty, leaving us with a society that is alien from our Swedish society – overshadowing our similarities. Through this talk show we will highlight the complexity of the Malmö-Middle East interlink due to the migration and refugee flow to Sweden that has resulted in an interflow of people between these two regions.

The artistic, intellectual and innovative segments of these societies are re-flourishing in the post-conflict era. The talk show will invite people that are “bridging” the two regions through their line of work through various initiatives (political, cultural and social) that enhance intercultural communication and understanding.

Thus, Malmö is not just a melting pot – it is also a place closely interlinked with the Middle East.

The Barculture

The week of The Festival is packed with great events like masterclasses, seminars, workshops, parties and, of course, the big bad wolf of it all, The Conference. However, sometimes you just want to unwind and meet with people in a more easy-going context.

On this particular night, there's no better place to do just this than at Far i Hatten.

On stage, you will find songwriter Johannes Antreski performing his quirky chansons together with saxophonist Anna Jonsson and bass player Sebastian Nordström from Local Loco & the Idiots. Expect a set of jazz/blues-influenced songs filled with sketchy characters, strong feelings and weird animals.

Monday August 26

7:30 am
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9:00 am

Women in Entrepreneurship Breakfastseminar

How do we to turn the first connected generation into the first sustainable generation?

It's time for another one of our family style breakfasts in Malmö at Djäkne Kaffebar. Join us at the Women in Entrepreneurship breakfast on August 26 from 7.30am-9am.

This time, the speaker will be Hannah Stanton, Director at The Goals. She will tell us about how to turn the first connected generation into the first sustainable generation, which is is exactly what The Goals provides globally through an online crowd-learning experience accessible even on the simplest mobile device.

9:00 am
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3:30 pm

The Excursionculture

Join us on a trip into the wilderness where we will explore future experiences in nature.

Join us on a trip into the wilderness where we bring together different perspectives on the future experiences in nature.

What services and solutions can make more people experience the power of nature in the future? Inspired by nature herself we look at this from different perspectives and with different backgrounds and competences.

Because the trend forecasts are quite clear: urban people of the future will also long for experiences in nature. They will long to do something meaningful. Something that feels real. At the same time, more and more people are not at home in nature. They have never made a fire, prepared barbecue sticks or peed in the blueberry bushes. They have never paddled, found their way using tree trunks or stayed overnight under the stars. And what happens if the urban people of the future venture out into nature on their own? Is that sustainable?

Welcome to The Excursion.

What You'll Learn

Meeting people from a variety of industries (expand network)

What are some future trends that will influence tourism trends to Skåne?

An insight into nature experiences from a tourism perspective

9:00 am
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10:00 am

Going Circularworkshop

Do you want to learn more about how to solve the most common challenges businesses face when going circular?

Let's stop the talk and do some action. Do you want to learn more about how to solve the most common challenges businesses face when going circular? This is a rapid creative and solutions-based event where you as the audience get to follow a panel of circular experts solving these challenges live.

Join this event and you'll end up filled with inspiration, have answers to the most common questions and make your visual to-do list for taking action in your space.

What You'll Learn

How to solve the most common challenges businesses face when going circular

Visual to-do list for taking action in your space

Expert's advise on the subject

10:00 am
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12:00 pm

Chatbot AI Design Sprintworkshop

Hands-on workshop where we develop new AI-based products and services in small teams.

In a 2-hour session, you will be part of a Chatbot AI Design Sprint. Divided into teams, you’re going to get a hands-on experience of collaboratively developing a chatbots functionality and personality. The Chatbot AI Sprint is based on the Google Design Sprint, compressed into a couple of hours session and with the focus on AI and the chatbot.

Lunch seminar with Krinova: The Future of Eatingseminar

Think of your lifetime of eating and you’ll come to the conclusion that much has changed on the plate. Globalization, less time spent in the home, technology, body ideals and so on are just a few of the phenomenons that influence our everyday eating. Today, the Swedish conversation is focused on health – both planetary and personal. However, the future of food and eating is as unknown as any future.

This lunch on the future of eating is a crystal ball experience transporting you to different possible scenarios giving you insight into the current topics and trends.

During lunch you will meet environmental strategist Linda Birkedal of Naturskyddsföreningen, food ”teleporting" pioneers Ryosuke Sakaki and Takashi Koyama of Open Meals (who are also speaking at The Conference) and Jens Almqvist, business designer at Krinova.

Seminar: "Visualizing Sustainability Challenges​"seminar

What happens when 20 young citizens, one media company and a future challenge end up in the same room?​

With the support of the European Regional Development Fund, Malmö Museums has worked with this concept during the summer of 2019. ​40 young citizens, together with Ustwo and Bloody Honey, have explored the visualization of future sustainability challenges. ​This is an activity that will return annually, where new challenges will be adressed by new participants.​

During this talk, Malmö Museums will share the results and findings from the 2019 edition of the Wisdome Sustainability Lab.

12:00 pm
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1:00 pm

How to Crack the Gender Issue in the Tech Industryseminar

Taking a closer look at how tech companies can improve the sector's gender imbalance.

Recruiting women to the IT industry can be a major challenge, but far from an impossibility. In 2018, Telavox, an IT company headquarted in Malmö, saw job applications from women increase by 180%. Today, there are 67% more female employees at Telavox, compared to 2017.

In this lunch seminar, we will show how a genuine interest, deliberate efforts and a little courage can make a huge difference in regards to the sector's gender imbalance.

2:00 pm
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5:00 pm

The Fika with IBMseminar

Grab a coffee and come see what the teams participating in The Jam have been up to.

Grab a coffee and come see what the teams participating in The Jam* have done and listen to our panelists discuss what we’ve learned, what we thought we knew and where we should go from here when adopting a culture of lean innovation in our own teams.

*The Jam 2019 will assemble over 150 creatives, technologists and innovation thinkers from across the globe to Malmö, Sweden to explore and design for people, industry and societal challenges our businesses require to be sustainable. Multi-disciplinary IBM Garage teams will work with Nordic companies to tackle building platform value chains, designing for business and the people, as well as exploring how technology shifts and disruptive macro forces will enhance or impede our abilities to act.

The Twin Revolutions – exploring the disruptive potentials of biotech and infotech from a user perspectiveseminar

"The revolutions in biotech and infotech will give us control of the world inside us, and will enable us to engineer and manufacture life.
We will learn how to design brains, extend lives, and kill thoughts at our discretion" – Yuval Noah Harari

Welcome to the studio at Topp where we will explore how to design for future biotech.

Together we will twist, bend and remix the technical revolutions of information technology with biotech. Designers, biohackers, developers and everyone interested in related areas are encouraged to participate in this joint discovery workshop. We hope that we collaboratively can find many interesting perspectives and principles for designing within this exciting realm.

[Topp](http://www.topp.se/ is an innovation and design company with a strong focus on experience first and prototyping with emerging technologies. With a strong legacy of creating cutting edge user experiences in mobile, IoT and AR/VR, we now invite you to collaboratively explore user perspectives in the growing fields of Infotech and Biotech.

What You'll Learn

Exploring humans as datasets

How to design in the intersection of infotech and biotech

How machine learning, AI, genome sequencing and other emerging technologies are or can be used for healthcare/wellness

3:00 pm
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5:00 pm

Future of the Web + Swedish Fika with 24HRseminar

Just what it sounds like: a discussion about the future of the web (while munching on a traditional Swedish fika).

The Finns have sauna, the Danes have hygge and the Swedes have fika. The best of all possible ways to pass time. Not only will there be coffee and baked goods, we will also provide some snack-sized topics regarding the web, the future, and the future of the web. Just as with the web itself, the discussions will benefit from a diverse range of participants. (i.e. non-techies are MORE than welcome)

Come join us for cinnamon buns and more (tradition calls for seven kinds of biscuits and a strawberry cake, but we'll see…) at our lovely office in central Malmö. If the weather is fair we will make use of our roof terrace, otherwise our living room will do just fine!

3:30 pm
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5:00 pm

How to Create a Superteamworkshop

A workshop on "how to build trust and deliver great work in a team" with Daresay. ﻿

Happy teams are all alike. Understand the characteristics of a great team and how to reach a culture of safety. Build the culture, learn the culture and get the tools in our Teamwork Kit workshop. We share our collection of methods that helps teams build trust and deliver great work together.

You get to try out some of Daresay's template posters and we show different ways to use them: with your everyday team, with clients/consultants and with temporary teams.

With the right mindset and a great framework, any group can become a creative, resilient team.

Crafting Signature Momentsworkshop

Every day, we experience countless interactions with brands and businesses – and their products and services. Most are inherently forgettable. In a sea of mundane customer journeys, a Signature Moment surprises and delights. This is the key in the customer interaction – the reason why they return and find value from your service.

Signature Moments are a way to build deeper, more lasting relationships between your customers, your employees, and your business. It’s a standout interaction within a customer journey that leaves a lasting, memorable impact on the person that experiences it. However, it’s even harder to build a great service when your products and services span across a number of different channels.

In Idean's workshop we will open up the process and the methodologies from some lessons learned.

Join us and get a unique chance to define your own personal signature moment!

5:00 pm
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6:00 pm

Skinny Dippingculture

Let's take a dip in the sea down by the idyllic cold bathing house. With or without clothes, your choice!

Come take a dip in the sea down by the idyllic cold baths at Ribersborg. With or without clothes – it’s up to you!

Yep, you heard us. Skinny Dipping at Ribersborgs Kallbadhus is a veritable The Conference tradition. To begin with, it's one of our absolute favorite spots in Malmö. Summer, fall, winter and spring – it doesn’t really matter. The people of Malmö enjoy a good swim and a sweaty sauna session all year round. It something we do together, to relax, either naked or in our bathing suits. (The former is recommended but optional.)

Warm Up Family Dinnerculture

To kick The Conference off and to welcome our international guests, we cordially invite everybody that wants to come to a big family dinner.

The venue is a hidden Malmö treasure. It’s undoubtedly the best way to get into the whole conference groove. You’ll get to meet the speakers and hang out with the local community before the real deal kicks off the next day.

Anyone is welcome to register – The Conference participant or not. Participation is free, but seats are limited.

Grand Opening: "The age of...?"culture

This exhibition, curated by Non Agency, is part of a two-year long project where 8 international design studios are working with the planet of Mars as a projection plane for critique and speculation to create spaces for discussion and debate about what it means being human on Earth today.

"The Age of…?" is the first of two exhibitions in the project and shows the design processes where the designers explore different future scenarios through speculative design.

As one response to environmental decay and increasing material scarcity on Earth, scientists and the space industry are investing in the potential of asteroid mining, planetary engineering and in-space manufacturing to meet the demands of our growing population. Much of the research and development today is primarily human-centered, very little has been done to consider the potential ecological impact on this unknown environment of Mars.

Is it easier for humans to imagine life on Mars than to change our destructive behavior on Earth?

At the same time, a growing understanding of that we as humans are not exceptional beings but rather fully entangled and dependent on other species, renders the urgency of our own extinction clear.

What if focus would shift from exploiting space, just as we have exploited Earth, to develop more sustainable lifestyles in mutualistic symbiosis with other species? What can we learn, or perhaps unlearn, by imagining and designing for multispecies life on Mars?

Running with Månsculture

Did you see that? No, you didn’t. You didn’t because he – The Flash, the Malmö Guerilla Runners man, the marathon pro, The Måns – is simply too fast to catch.

Round off day one with a jolly jog. Your guide, the wonderful Måns Renntun, is not only the poster boy for the region’s most sympathetic running club, he’s also a master of Malmö curiosities, so prepare for some simultaneous sightseeing!

7:00 pm
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9:00 pm

Dine With New Friendsculture

Get to know new people over a scrumptious dinner at one of our favorite Malmö shacks!

Location:
All over town

Take the opportunity to meet people you've never met before over a scrumptious dinner in Malmö.

We’ve reserved tables at a number of our favorite spots around town. Simply register and we’ll hook you up with great people. Then, when The Conference is here and the evening is approaching, we'll tell you which restaurant you should show up at and how to get there. We know it sounds a bit like Russian roulette, but we promise that there’s only great outcomes in this one.

For 350 SEK (incl. VAT) per person, the restaurants will put together a lovely multi-course dinner for you to enjoy. Please note that you pay on site and that drinks are not included in the price.

8:00 pm
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1:00 am

The Party by Creunaculture

Bring your friends and join us for some boule, pastis, food, DJs and an overall awesome night.

Yes, people. It's the certifiably great The Conference 2019 party! This time in collaboration with our friends from Creuna!

This is your chance to dance and rub shoulders with all the great people and speakers you’ve met during the day. It’s what The Conference pros refer to as the most important session of them all. And we wouldn’t necessarily disagree – because after all, we’re also of the belief that life’s about people (and the magic that occurs when you encourage them to spend time in each other’s company while some suave DJ spins the hell out of some carefully selected records).

Everyone’s welcome. The Conference participant or not. So bring your friends and join us at Boulebar Malmö for some boule, pastis, food, DJs and an overall awesome night.

What's Outside The Universe?seminar

Our universe is bizarre. Why is most of the cosmos composed of mysterious dark matter? Why is the Higgs boson so strange? Why do atoms exist? The hottest-and-latest in physics suggests that the biggest puzzles of science could be elegantly solved if our universe were one of a possibly infinite number of universes. But is this a testable scientific idea, or eternally speculative? How do we talk about what's outside our universe?

Join Dr. James Beacham of CERN's Large Hadron Collider as he explores the edges of knowledge – including CERN's plans for a colossal Future Circular Collider – and how the future of science, technology, and innovation will be much wilder than we can imagine.

This finishing keynote talk of The Conference 2019 is free and open to the public.

5:00 pm
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8:00 pm

The AWculture

As soon as the last keynote talk is done: beverages, jazz bar, lots of people!

Breakfast seminar: "Designing the Future is Tactile"seminar

Bespoke and Zenit have joined forces to explore the importance of tactile thinking in Futures Design and strategy.

This is an introduction where you can gain insight into the future of strategic landscapes and how to unfold the potential within them. We will be sharing methodology, mindset and why the role of tactile speculation is to make desirable futures irresistible.

What You'll Learn

How the digital world affects branding

Practical advice on how to think and act

Cases and examples from around the world

8:00 am
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9:30 am

Rule breaker or rule maker? – The 5 commandments of branding in the digital ageseminar

When the complexity of the digitalization hits us – with its opportunities as well as its challenges – it is easy to lose sight of the fundamentals. When all is said and done, the new digital world needs to be produced, distributed and embodied by brands. Which rules are the same as always, and which will we need to add or reconsider? No sweat, this seminar will have you covered.

Join us for brekkie at 8am, the seminar will kick off at around 8.30am.

What You'll Learn

How the digital world affects branding

Practical advice on how to think and act

Cases and examples from around the world

10:00 am
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10:45 am

Rhetoric for Underdogs – Overcoming the Disadvantagesseminar

During this inspirational seminar, we will show you how to turn underdogs into winners.

What do you say when the odds are stacked against you? How do you communicate when you feel inferior? Next time you're about to have a difficult conversation, a presentation in which you need to gain people's confidence quickly or a meeting that makes you nervous, remember: there are tools that you can use to overcome the disadvantage.

During this inspirational seminar, we will show you how to turn underdogs into winners. Building on examples of people that turned both their careers and lives around just by getting better at appearing more confident and trustworthy, we will give you practical tools that you can use in a number of future situations.

During the 1970s, the Norweigan social psychologist Berit Ås revised and popularized the theory of suppression techniques. Since then, new social arenas have changed where and how we communicate. As a result, suppression techniques and confirmation strategies are now used IRL as well as online. During this interactive workshop with Jämställd Utveckling Skåne, we’re going to explore how suppression techniques are used online today, as well as trying to forecast how new ones will arise due to the complexity of our digital world.

11:00 am
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12:00 pm

The importance of Being Kindworkshop

During this workshop we will explore the notion of kindness in the workplace. For example, we will look at why knowledge sharing is important for the soul and the business, why inclusion is important for society and business, and why being kind is vital to humanity.

"Invent Your Utopia" Design Fiction Workshopworkshop

In times of fast technological change, we often ask ourselves: Can I keep up with this? Or, how can I be a part of this bright tech future? With design fiction you can take an active role and start to actually create your own utopian future by inventing fictional product that might become reality.

Who should participate in this workshop?

Curious humans like you, who are interested in design, technology and the future. You don’t have to be a designer, this workshop is open to everyone.

What are we going to do?

We are going to invent fictional products of the future. In a utopian approach they should solve problems like climate change or other challenges.

Why should I participate in this workshop?

How does the design process work?

1. Create a concept in a group of participants by doing a mesh-up with sticky notes.
2. In your group, brainstorm, sketch and visualize using pens, paper and special paper-stencils.
3. Give your groups product a name and a story, present it to everybody and publish it online.

About the Host:

Signe Fleischmann is a designer based in Zürich, who since he was a child was fascinated by technology and design. With the age of 20, Signe founded his own design studio. These days he collaborates with international technology firms and startups that give him a glimpse into the future.

What You'll Learn

Learn how to get active and create something to change the future

Strengthen your creative confidence by bringing your visions to life using a design process

Open up and start a dialogue by publishing your invention to the web

1:00 pm
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2:30 pm

"Discover Diversity" workshop with MINEworkshop

Join us as we explore new aspects of workplace culture through examples, exercises and scientific facts.

Swedish workplace culture – what's the deal? We Swedes tend to consider ourselves the absolute normal and average. Not so much. Join us on a journey and explore the workplace culture with us through examples, exercises and scientific facts.

Very useful for everyone to reflect. Malmö (and Sweden) of today is diverse but are we inclusive? Learn more about inclusive leadership and how you as an employer can make good use of all the talent at hand, and how you tackle the bumps on the road without offending anyone or braking any laws.

Please join us and share your experiences and get some new insights from us and the other participants!

"Building Ethical Products" seminar with Panionseminar

We rely heavily on digital products because of their utility, but quite often our interactions with these products leave us feeling depressed, diminished and frustrated.

So how can we as designers and digital developers build products that empower our users? How can we build more mental health-conscious products that embrace finding a balance between our digital and analogue worlds?

These days utility isn't enough. We might not know it yet, but we want technology that enhances our capabilities and gives us a sense of agency and control over our lives rather than products that suck us dry of our time and attention.

So how can we build products that empower our users?
How can digital technology be designed and developed in a more ethical way?
How can we build trust and happy customers, with less focus on addiction and trickery?
What KPIs should we be using to measure success?
And how can we adjust the standards for what investors expect, regarding KPIs when assessing a product?

In other words, can we begin to shift towards measuring how a product positively impacts people's lives, rather than focusing solely on numbers that indicate how often the product is used, i.e. its addictiveness?

1:30 pm
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4:30 pm

"A Prototyping Mindset" master class with Ustwoworkshop

Having a prototyping mindset releases a lot of creative powers. It’s about constant iteration and improvement based on feedback and about trying out new things. Instead of making hard decisions that can’t be changed – let’s prototype!

In this master class/workshop we’ll give you inspiring examples of how we use prototyping as a tool to handle the ever changing world around us, the emerging demands of the future and how to find out what to build next. We'll also talk about Succailure and how that is an important part of ustwo's mindset.

Prototyping is for curious people as well as for people who want try out what’s working before putting all money in one bucket. You can prototype life changes as well as user experiences. It’s all about the mindset!

We share methods, learnings and reflections and will also do hands on prototyping – using different techniques that will help you think better, communicate clearer and learn fast in order to fail fast and make better decisions.

4:00 pm
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5:00 pm

Guided Tour of Media Evolution Cityseminar

Guided tour of our two co-working spaces + the story about the Media Evolution community and The Conference.

Free Beer & The Crunchy Bits About: UX Writingseminar

Some days you want the entire lasagna. But sometimes you just want the crunchy bits from the pan edges (oddly specific, but hey, we speak from experience). UX writing is the lasagna in this metaphor.

Please note that this isn’t your regular presentation format either. Instead, we’ve recorded our content ahead of time, so you can cherry-pick which bits you want to hear and when. Swallow it whole or graze your way through it. Our own UX writer Amy Johansson will be serving up her take on the discipline and its practical application under the banner of UX. And we dare you to get picky. Only listen to the parts that you want to hear. Or listen to them all. They all pair well with beer anyways. Welcome!

What You'll Learn

– The most important things about UX

– Writing on your own terms

6:00 pm
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8:15 pm

FILM: "PUSH"culture

Fredrik Gertten's brilliant new film explores who’s being pushed out of the city and why.

You are invited to join Movium and White Arkitekter at Biograf Panora on August 29. It's going to be a movie night with a gripping new film about how global finance is fuelling the housing crisis and making cities unaffordable to live in.

ABOUT THE MOVIE

Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities around the world. Incomes are not. Fredrik Gertten's new film PUSH sheds
light on a new kind of faceless landlord, our increasingly unlivable cities and an
escalating crisis that has an effect on us all. This is not gentrification, it’s a different kind of monster.

The film follows Leilani Farha, the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing,
as she’s travelling the globe, trying to understand who’s being pushed out of the city and why.

“I believe there’s a huge difference between housing as a commodity and gold as a
commodity. Gold is not a human right, housing is.” – Leilani Farha

The Bar at Far i Hattenculture

The week of The Festival is packed with great events like master classes, seminars, workshops, parties and, of course, the big bad wolf of it all, The Conference. However, sometimes you just want to unwind and meet with people in a more easy-going context.

So, if you’re in for some form of company, we kindly suggest you swing by The Bar at Far i Hatten. Everyone’s invited, just pop by!

Working life is changing rapidly with digitization and globalization, and new ways of organizing are accompanied by specific and partly conflicting norms and values. On
the one hand, creativity, innovation, diversity and self-government is emphasized.
On the other hand, rectification, rules and standardization is emphasized.

Commitment and digitization are issues for everyone, in addition to stress, unhealthiness and lack of leadership. What happens if the boss loses commitment, for example?

Unionen, together with Lund University and Odd Company, will explore what
increased availability and a more boundless working life does to us working there.

New research from Lund University shows that not only the employees can be
negatively affected by digitization and increased accessibility, it also affects the
companies’ finances.

During this morning, we will take a closer look at a couple of really interesting aspects of the rapidly changing working life of today, as well as some related concepts – such as the “Pause Pod”, the world’s first private pop-up space dedicated for relaxation.

Smart Solutions in the Future Sharing Cityworkshop

”Big dreams, smart solutions and social businesses for a future sharing city in Malmö?" – a co-created lab on ideas, solutions and business models with potential of catalyzing the future Embassy of Sharing in Hyllie.

Making cities sustainable means creating career and business opportunities, safe and affordable housing, and building resilient societies and economies. It involves investment in public transport, creating green public spaces, and improving urban planning and management in participatory and inclusive ways. The Embassy of Sharing, a new part of Hyllie, Malmoe, is the tomorrows community, based on shared values and circularity.

In this lab you are invited to bring in your dreams, your ideas, your perspective or a potential business on how to develop Fyrtornet, the entrance building to the new district in Hyllie. Fyrtornet with its eleven floors is based on the principles of sharing economy and has a preliminary construction start 2020. The first floor is a public meeting point, with cafés, conference and event venue, a learning center and the future library.

You will get an introduction to the process of developing The Embassy of Sharing, and in particular Fyrtornet, based on shared values and circularity. You will be able to discuss and bring In your ideas, solutions and business models on how to create an educational centre with the aim of improving plurality, social inclusion and shared values. Last but never the less you will meet a bunch of co-participants with their perspectives, ideas and solutions on how to catalyse the future of sharing.

This is an opportunity to be part of the creation of tomorrow’s community together with Midroc Properties, the Forum for Social Innovation South, Malmö university, the City of Malmö and a bunch of social innovators and creators.

Social innovations as such take place at several different levels in society. Individuals come up with smart solutions for how to do things better in our everyday life and in our cities. Civil servants and politicians challenge the borders of bureaucracy to renew politics. Companies renew their role and become not only for profit organisations. The academy creates social benefits through new perspectives and new knowledge to benefit for all. New technology and knowledge open up opportunities for new social movements in design thinking, sharing economics, nudging and circular environmental thinking among others.

The potential of social innovation is all about coming together. Join us for a co-created lab on components and ideas to create the future sustainable cities and communities with a learning centre as a driving force .

August 30 during The Festival:
8.30-9.00 Breakfast and mingle @Storm, Malmö university
9-11 A co-created lab @Storm, Malmö university

Business case: The Embassy of Sharing, presented by Sten Lindquist and Niklas Åklundh, Midroc Properties.
Facilitation: Anna Landeborg and Emelie Dahlström, Forum for Social innovation South

9:30 am
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11:30 am

Seminar, Exhibition and Snorkling with the Marine Education Centerseminar

Come learn more about the important work that's being done at Malmö's Marine Education Center. Then snorkle!

The marine educational work at Marine Education Center wants to go beneath the surface. At this event, you'll get to take part in three aspects of the impressive and important work that they do in the region's waters and shores.

PART 1 – SEMINAR
During this seminar, you will get to know more about the idea behind Marine Education Center, about Öresund (the waters surrounding Malmö/Copenhagen) and the challenges that are currently being dealt with.

PART 2 – EXHIBITION
Next, we will have a peek at the latest exhibition at Marine Education Center.

PART 3 – SNORKLING/TUCKING
Lastly, we will do some snorkling around in the waters outside the center. Or do some tucking/netting, if you prefer not to get all wet and stuff.

10:00 am
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11:30 am

"Polarity Management for Leading a Change" workshop with Hyper Islandworkshop

This interactive session will introduce you to the Polarity Management model and allow you to get hands-on with it.

Often we see it as a problem and try to solve it. Sometimes this is the right thing to do, but what if it isn't a problem but an ongoing polarity that we need to manage well, rather than try to solve with one single answer?

Do we focus on improving quality or reducing cost?
Should we spend time planning or take action?
Do we need stability or change?

If it is a polarity, you must manage it and avoid applying traditional problem solving skills that will only increase the problem rather than help it. The Polarity Management model helps you to distinguish between Solvable Problems and Polarities, and helps you effectively manage those polarities most important to your organization’s success.

This interactive session will introduce you to the Polarity Management model and allow you to get hands-on with it so you can leave with tools and techniques you can apply right away.

11:30 am
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12:15 pm

Tabata in the Parkculture

Get your adrenaline running with this 45 minute intense training in the beautiful Slottsparken in central Malmö. Josefin from 24HR Malmö will show you how to work your glutes, your core, your soul even. Note that even though Tabata is considered intense you don’t HAVE to push yourself to the max.

Put on your best exercise clothes and bring a yoga mat, or towel. There will be fruit.

11:30 am
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1:00 pm

"Is That Legal? – Law in the Era of AI seminar with The Groundseminar

What happens when non-people, like an AI, start behaving like... well, people?

Laws are something designed by people for people. So, what happens when non-people, like an AI, start behaving like... well, people? How do we regulate them? Are they bound by law to rules that don't really apply? Join Setterwalls
& Donna Legal at The Ground for a lunchtime discussion where we explore cases in which AI makes legal terms and applications fuzzy.

12:00 pm
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1:00 pm

Guided Exhibition Tour: "The Age of...?"culture

This exhibition is part of a project where 8 design studios explore future scenarios through speculative design.

This exhibition, curated by Non Agency, is part of a two-year long project where 8 international design studios are working with the planet of Mars as a projection plane for critique and speculation to create spaces for discussion and debate about what it means being human on Earth today.

"The Age of…?" is the first of two exhibitions in the project and shows the design processes where the designers explore different future scenarios through speculative design.

As one response to environmental decay and increasing material scarcity on Earth, scientists and the space industry are investing in the potential of asteroid mining, planetary engineering and in-space manufacturing to meet the demands of our growing population. Much of the research and development today is primarily human-centered, very little has been done to consider the potential ecological impact on this unknown environment of Mars.

Is it easier for humans to imagine life on Mars than to change our destructive behavior on Earth?

At the same time, a growing understanding of that we as humans are not exceptional beings but rather fully entangled and dependent on other species, renders the urgency of our own extinction clear.

What if focus would shift from exploiting space, just as we have exploited Earth, to develop more sustainable lifestyles in mutualistic symbiosis with other species? What can we learn, or perhaps unlearn, by imagining and designing for multispecies life on Mars?

2:00 pm
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3:30 pm

How do you design services for a market of over 1 billion people?seminar

A seminar about globilization possibilities and service design for the massive Indian market.

About the event:
The world is getting more global every day so designing services in Malmö can have an end market anywhere in the world. India is a market of more than 1 billion people. How can designers in Malmö cooperate with local Indian designers to design future proof and sustainable services for this mass market?

About the event organiser:
Service Design Network – Malmö Chapter
In collaboration with SDN Sweden, we aim to foster the local service design community by creating opportunities for sharing, promoting and celebrating Service Design in Malmö.

The Malmö School: Housing and Urban Basicsworkshop

The global housing market is worth three times more than the world's total GDP. In our cities this results in new apartments standing empty at the same time as the shortage of affordable housing is rampant.

This crisis is the starting point of the Shift, a new worldwide movement initiated by the UN to secure the right to housing as a fundamental human right.

The local government in Malmö has joined the Shift movement. Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh, Mayor City of Malmö, will talk about why the city decided to be part of the Shift and how it will affect housing and urban planning in Malmö. Now it is time for us: developers, politicians, architects, scholars and others to learn what this means for us and how we can work together to make the shift happen.

During this workshop – hosted by White Arkitekter and Movium – you will learn to understand the need of radical change, meet a professional network to cooperate with and learn how to lead this change of perspective in your own organization.

Come and round off The Festival week at Mitt Möllan, the lovely mall/gallery/food destination located in the famous Möllevången district.

For this event, we have partnered up with both the electronic music festival Backyard Sessions and the inimitable Quizmaster Dallas. Expect an evening filled with great music, food and a really entertaining quiz.

We'll be outside if the sun is out, otherwise we'll curse the weather gods and cozy up indoors. Either way: do swing by!